It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted

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It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

Margot Robbie

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I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.

Whit Stillman

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It is actually helpful to acknowledge the truth that we are just as quirky as everyone else and that God loves quirky!

Stasi Eldredge

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It's always helpful to remember that in the grand scheme of things you are much more important than... um, wait, than... something, maybe.

Demetri Martin

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The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.

Evelyn Lauder

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It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.

Paul Simon

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It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

Dan Ariely

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In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

Robert A. Heinlein

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If you find something helpful to give you a hand, allow it to assist you, hands down!

Julie Hebert

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

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Leaders do what is uncomfortable but helpful. They run away from the comfort that doesn't produce any help for the world.

Israelmore Ayivor

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If you ask me, what is helpful to creativity is training the eye to notice things, to observe closely and precisely, being careful not to make a muddle of it.

Ian Graham

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People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.

David McCullough

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